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How are the FC models. I have been out of warhammer for a few years, always had plastic or metal. Started back up about a year ago but ive never purchased a finecast model. Im a big ork player and looking at getting Ghazghkull Thraka and a big mek KFF and maybe some others... Just hate to waste money on something I might not like haha

Any help would be great.

Oh ho ho...here it comes... let's just say that opinion is "divided" on this issue. I personally don't mind them so much. Have you ever had exposure to Forge World/Warhammer Forge models? If so, imagine them...but even more brittle and much more likely to get mold defects.

If not then I'll try to describe it from scratch. It is a quite different material from the GW plastic. It is actually much lighter. Also much more brittle. It does not bend (although some parts may arrive warped. Just run it under some warm water. This is the same with all resin models and not just a FC thing). It just breaks. Resin in general is like this, but I often felt like FC was even worse in this regard and was just looking for an excuse to break while I was cutting it off the sprue and clearing mold lines.

Lastly, there are a lot of extra mold lines and joints of FC material between various parts of the model. This is because resin doesn't flow as well as plastic (i guess) so they need lots more channels to get it throughout the models. Even so there will be bubbles (i.e. little pockmarks where the material didn't fill the mold 100%). Honestly out of ~10 models I've assembled I have only found one bubble that's actually big enough to notice if you're not pouring over the model trimming mold lines, and it's on the foot of a robed model so nobody should ever even look at it. Of course people's tolerances for this do vary a lot.

My summery is that it's not a horrible material, but I much prefer plastic when possible. Heck of a lot better than metal though! That stuff is just horrible to work with.

Oh, forgot a couple things: Resin in general sags when it gets warm. FC is even worse in this regard (supporting my theory it's basically really low quality resin...) so don't leave your models in the car, or direct sunlight for that matter. Also it files a lot faster than GW plastic, so don't get surprised and eat away too much of your model (it also makes a heck of a lot of dust when filing, again like resin. Use a fan or get a dust mask if you're sensitive about that kind of thing).

Couple other modeling related thing: this is just good practice for all models, but resin needs it more, wash your models with warm soapy water and give them a gentle once over with an old toothbrush if possible. Not only cleans off any mold release agent (slippery stuff to get the models out of the mold. stops paint and glue from staying on) but also roughens the surface so glue and primer can stick better. Superglue is what you want for these guys, in case you use plastic glue know in advance it doesn't work. Also it can have a hard time with primer. You need some heavy duty stuff because standard hobby primer might not want to stick like it does for plastic. I have a special can of black automotive primer for resin. It was hard to find stuff that went on thin though, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't like GW plastic...

I was in a similar boat to yourself. So I tried FC Belial... Didn't like it. Won't be buying anymore.
I felt as if its too fragile and brittle. Perhaps if it was cheaper than the old metals.... being as the material is genuinely cheaper. But alas this is GW lol ..
Plastics, old metals, and FW only for me now. Hopefully they will replace it all with plastics gradually

Alrighty. So its really personal preference. Ive never had experience with forgeworld or any resin stuff.

Im thinking maybe just buying a cheaper kit not gazzy haha. Start with a painboy or big mek with KFF. Just so its not so pricey if I decide I don't like the finecast stuff.